I have what must be a common problem , perhaps I'm overthinking it.
I want to build an app that will collect a " large variety" of data and I won't be able to create a class or structure for each data type because they will be a) too numerous and b) user defined .
I want to collect health data from users, but the users will define how the data is recorded unless the template already exists, I don't even know what the users problems will be.
In some cases it will be very simple eg
Measuring Potassium
{DateTime(22/7/2018), Descriptor("Potassium") Unit(35), Metric ("mm/L")}
Measuring Blood pressure
{DateTime(22/6/2018), Descriptor1("Systolic"),Unit1 (120), Descriptor2("Diastolic")Unit2(80)}
But I also want people to measure anything from Dandruff to Inflammation to mood to the number of spots on each finger. Some of the data structures might need boolean fields , start /end times etc.
I'd also like to be able to search within the data and analyse it for the user, eg every time you have stomach ache you have spots on your fingers, for example
What is it called when you need to work with flexible data structures and are there any guidelines?
I want to build an app that will collect a " large variety" of data and I won't be able to create a class or structure for each data type because they will be a) too numerous and b) user defined .
I want to collect health data from users, but the users will define how the data is recorded unless the template already exists, I don't even know what the users problems will be.
In some cases it will be very simple eg
Measuring Potassium
{DateTime(22/7/2018), Descriptor("Potassium") Unit(35), Metric ("mm/L")}
Measuring Blood pressure
{DateTime(22/6/2018), Descriptor1("Systolic"),Unit1 (120), Descriptor2("Diastolic")Unit2(80)}
But I also want people to measure anything from Dandruff to Inflammation to mood to the number of spots on each finger. Some of the data structures might need boolean fields , start /end times etc.
I'd also like to be able to search within the data and analyse it for the user, eg every time you have stomach ache you have spots on your fingers, for example
What is it called when you need to work with flexible data structures and are there any guidelines?